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One of the most impressive features of My Music is its integrated support for visualizations, which are a way to make your music come to life on screen. XBMC offers support for many visualizations and some of the following may be present in your installation:
One of the most impressive features of My Music is its integrated support for visualizations, which are a way to make your music come to life on screen. XBMC offers support for many visualizations and some of the following may be present in your installation:
* '''Saville'''
* '''FishBMC'''
* '''Saville Blue'''
* '''OpenGL Spectrum'''
* '''Spectrum Analyzer'''
* '''projectM'''
* '''StarBurst'''
* '''Waveform'''
* '''Boxalizer 1 and 2'''
* '''Fountain'''
* '''G-Force'''
* '''Goom'''
* '''Milkdrop''' - Arguably the best of all, with its mind-bending effects and the ability to fully customize it through the User Interface
* '''[[Vortex Visualization Development|Vortex]]'''


You can configure Visualization in one of two different ways: Through [[Settings/Music|music settings]] or through the [[#On screen display (OSD)|on screen display (OSD)]] while playing the Visualization.
You can configure Visualization in one of two different ways: Through [[Settings/Music|music settings]] or through the [[#On screen display (OSD)|on screen display (OSD)]] while playing the Visualization.

Revision as of 08:03, 10 May 2014

Home icon grey.png   ▶ Music library
▶ Settings
▶ Music playback

Music playback is done while in the main XBMC GUI or the full screen Visualization. XBMC will default to staying in the main GUI.


On screen display (OSD)

Music control can be done while in the main XBMC GUI or the fullscreen/visualization screen.

While in the fullscreen/visualization screen you can bring up the on-screen-display controls by pressing  Enter or M.

  1. Previous
  2. Rewind
  3. Play/Pause
  4. Stop
  5. Fast Forward
  6. Next
  7. Repeat
  8. Shuffle
  9. Scrub bar (touch/clickable)

A. Lyrics
B. Visualization selection
C. Visualization settings
D. Visualization pre-sets
E. Record stream (no longer used)
F. Star rating


Mini player controls

While in the GUI you are able to browse all of XBMC and even look at pictures while playing music or videos. During GUI playback you can call up the Mini player controls at any time. In the default skin Confluence, you can do this two ways:

Sidebar

While the sidebar tab is present and while media is playing, bringing up the sidebar/blade menu by navigating to the left will reveal a small selection of player controls.

Window

A pop-up window with mini player controls can be brought up in Confluence while media is playing. For a keyboard press M while music is playing in the background.

Visualizations

One of the most impressive features of My Music is its integrated support for visualizations, which are a way to make your music come to life on screen. XBMC offers support for many visualizations and some of the following may be present in your installation:

  • FishBMC
  • OpenGL Spectrum
  • projectM
  • Waveform

You can configure Visualization in one of two different ways: Through music settings or through the on screen display (OSD) while playing the Visualization.

Internet video and audio streams

Various internet video and audio streams can be played back in Kodi as if they were locally stored on your media center by using STRM files. As long as the format and streaming-method (network-protocol) is supported by Kodi, stream can be added. These are basic text files that look like <name>.strm and contain a URL to the internet stream. STRM files can also be added to the video library and can have cover art, summaries, etc.

Some internet sites may have an add-on available that can also access these media streams, rather than having to manually create STRM files. See Add-ons for more information on how to find and install add-ons.

Playlists

  • Basic playlists - The Basic Playlist is a user created list of music or video that does not require a correctly scraped library as it uses the folder paths to the media files. As the playlist is based on paths, different classes of media can be mixed, like movies and episodes. The list can be created within Kodi or transferred from another media player.
  • Smart playlists - Smart Playlists are a versatile feature that allow you to create customised lists of media that may be more suited to your browsing preference. They are a set of rules/filters that allow you to display a sub set of the media in your library.

UPnP

Kodi can be used as a UPnP Server that will stream its library contents to other players on the network, or it can be used as a UPnP Client that can receive music and video from a UPnP Server on the network.

AirPlay

As of v11 (Eden), Kodi has very limited support for being an AirPlay target, allowing any device/platform that can run Kodi to receive some AirPlay content.